Fatigue that lifted at week ten like a curtain

Started 1 July 2024 · 24 replies · 289 hearts · read 2.5k times

MarenBremen, DE · 1 July 2024

2.1 years ago

A question rather than an update: Fatigue that lifted at week ten like a curtain

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this, because I would rather go in able to describe it properly.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment, which is ridiculous given that this circle exists precisely for it.

I have been specific in the title on purpose. Ten is what it is, and being vague about it has not helped me so far.

I will come back and say what my appointment produced, because I hate reading threads that stop before the answer.

RunaAarhus, DK

The exhaustion is real and it is not laziness, and I spent a month calling it laziness before somebody here corrected me kindly.

NettieBarrow, UK

My honest experience: my sleep is now noticeably better than it was before any of this, which was not something I expected or was aiming for.

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SinéadCork, IE

Naps helped me and made things worse for somebody I talk to weekly, so I am reluctant to recommend them. Worth trying and worth abandoning.

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

I am going to steer us away from comparing severity. It has crept in over the last few replies and it does not help anybody who is currently in it.

RufusGuildford, UK

The thing I would raise with somebody qualified is fatigue that is not improving over months rather than weeks. Mine was, so I did, and it was worth it.

12me too 6

Ollie OPeterhead, UK

No wisdom, just: I am sorry. That sounds genuinely hard.

HuwWrexham, UK

What Ollie O described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

What I found was that eating something earlier in the evening changed my nights more than anything I did about sleep directly.

OssianTromsø, NO

I was waking at three or four, wide awake, for about six weeks. It stopped as suddenly as it started and I never worked out why.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

My tiredness arrived without warning at about week five and lasted a month. It was not dramatic, it was just that everything took more out of me than it should have.

PeggyRotherham, UK

#10

Huw, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

What helped was scheduling the tiredness rather than fighting it. I moved the demanding parts of my week to mornings and stopped pretending afternoons were productive.

RuthieLeicester, UK

#11

What Ossian described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I had assumed the fatigue was psychological and it turned out to be worth a set of bloods. Something unrelated came up and it was fixable.

NilsUppsala, SE

#12

Mine was much worse for the first three days after each step up and then fine. Once I saw that pattern in my notes I planned around it.

BassCoventry, UK

#13

Sleep got better for me before it got worse. Two good months, then a strange stretch, then it settled at something new.

HollisBath, UK

#14

Adding a name to the list of people this helped.

LeifTrondheim, NO

#15

What made the difference for me was a fixed wake time rather than a fixed bedtime. Somebody here suggested it and it took about ten days to work.

GildaTrieste, IT

#16

Mine correlated with hydration far more than I would have believed. Very dull, very consistent across three months of notes.

16me too 4

KezWigan, UK

#17

I found the tiredness hardest to explain to other people. It is not the tiredness of a bad night, it is a different quality, and there is no good vocabulary for it.

NkemPort Harcourt, NG

#18

Picking up Kez’s point rather than starting a new one.

Something practical: I stopped scheduling anything on the evening of the day I do it. That one change took the pressure out of the whole week.

GigiNaples, IT

#19

Marking that I am here, in case that counts for anything today.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

#20

My prescriber asked about my sleep before anything else when I raised fatigue, which I thought was a diversion and turned out to be the whole answer.

NikolaiSofia, BG

#21

Gigi said something I want to sit with for a second.

The vivid dreams caught me completely off guard. Nobody had mentioned them and about a third of this circle seems to have had them.

NorahDerry, NI

#22

What worked was accepting that I had less in the day than I used to, temporarily, and taking things out of the week rather than trying to do them tired.

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

#23

Adding a note that the practical guides cover the ordinary version of this well, and what this thread is doing that they cannot is telling somebody they are not alone in it.

16me too 9

TychoLeiden, NL

#24

Nothing useful, just that I have been exactly here.